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News Fix

Here's What Happened Today: Tuesday

Government adopts unified stance on abortion bill, man who threatened to shoot schoolchildren remanded in custody and six to be tried over topless Kate Middleton photos – it’s the Evening Fix.

NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of today’s news.

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#US: Donald Trump’s campaign has launched a nightly show on Facebook Live in order to bypass “the media filter”.

#CANADA: A Canadian nurse has been charged with the murders of eight retirement home residents.

#UK: Six reporters, photographers and media chiefs are to be tried in France for invasion of privacy over topless photos of Britain’s Duchess of Cambridge published in 2012.

#ROME: Today the vatican urged Catholics not to scatter the ashes of the dead after cremation and instead to store them in places approved by the Church.

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PARTING SHOT 

THE SKELLIG RING has been voted as one of Lonely Planet’s top ten regions travellers should visit in 2017. [DailyEdge]

Here are 13 stunning views from it.